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Similar to the base game, the campaign in Rise of the Samurai is a fusion of turn based strategic as well as real-time combat gameplay. Players start out as the leader of a clan within one of the three families (Fujiwara, Minamoto, Taira) the player is tasked with managing their lands and army movement through different turns whilst also engaging in real time battles with other factions.

New to Rise of the Samurai, the player will have a sister clan who will act as an ally at the beginning of the campaign.

Because of the early historical setting, advanced units such as matchlock riflemen and cannons are not available for players, as the technologies had not yet been discovered.